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Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/pkill
In article <20121121080326.GL508%snowdrop.l8s.co.uk@localhost>,
David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By: christos
>> Date: Tue Nov 20 22:52:02 UTC 2012
>> Modified Files:
>> src/usr.bin/pkill: pkill.c
>> Log Message:
>> Don't use p_comm since it is only 16 characters long and you can find the
>> full argv. It is just confusing to have a long command name, that ps
>> shows as the long command name, and then when you try to kill it using
>> the full command name as displayed you don't get a match. While there
>> fix a format nit, and remove the main() declaration.
>This might break some scripts.
Well, I could put backwards compatibility, but it is more dangerous to
do so in the long term. Kids: don't use pkill(1) in scripts.
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